Yousef Tuqan Tuqan

Follow up will be for the hole year

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:15:07 +0400

I received this spam email from a company called Direct English, which offers courses in Business Writing.

Now I know that if you want to be “down with the kids” these days, then you can throw grammar & puncutation out the window, but COME ON!!! YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE TEACHING F#@%ING ENGLISH!!!!

Read it and weep, folks..

Dear Valuable Customers,
It’s my great Pleasure to announce that we do have a new offer plan of Business Writing followed by Coaching Mail.

Coaching mails is to guide the employees after having his/her 20 Hours Training in Business Writing, the coach will follow-up with the employee by mail all his/her Business writing of course without mentioning any of the confidentially goals as ( Numbers, Names , Company names)

Follow up will be for the hole year, our coach will be available in his online mail to guide the employees and correct all his/her mistake and send back to him/her CC both Managers yours and ours.

Note that the price of the 20 hours Business writing is 2000 AED per candidate.
Would you believe that this price will be same even with the Coach Email whole year

Direct English Aim is only to develop this employee who has usually a panic in sending Formal Letters in English.

I started counting the spelling mistakes & grammatical errors, but stopped at 30..

Publicis Groupe Acquires Flip Media, Leading Middle Eastern Digital Agency

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:20:05 +0400

And just in case you missed it, we’ve had a huge piece of news announced this week.

A contracting company was asked to stencil on the side of a fuel...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:17:12 +0400

A contracting company was asked to stencil on the side of a fuel tanker: Diesel Fuel in Arabic and No Smoking in Arabic.

This is what came back.

And they even managed to make a spelling mistake.

danielfogg: A collection of photographs of my grandfather,...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:25:57 +0400

The Hatter

Top Hats

Balance

The Process I

The Process II

danielfogg:

A collection of photographs of my grandfather, Leslie Levi Fogg taken between 1978 and 1980 in Stockport, England. My grandfather was a hatter and he had hands like dustbin lids. He made felt hats by hand for his entire working life. In order to shape the felt to the mould, he would need to place his hands in boiling water without using any protective gloves. In the early 1980s, work place safety regulation was introduced which banned the process of making felt hats by hand, making my grandfather one of the last people in the world to produce top hats and Trilbies this way.

Hat makers had been around for centuries. Their profession was once part of the fabric of British industrial society. Their process even coined a famous phrase…

“Mad as a hatter” is a colloquial phrase used in conversation to refer to a crazy person. In 18th and 19th century England mercury was used in the production of felt, which was used in the manufacturing of hats common of the time. People who worked in these hat factories were exposed daily to trace amounts of the metal, which accumulated within their bodies over time, causing some workers to develop dementia caused by mercury poisoning. Thus the phrase “Mad as a Hatter” became popular as a way to refer to someone who was perceived as insane. (Source: Wikipedia).

Luckily my grandfather wasn’t mad. He was just a hatter.

Finally completed Modern Warfare 3. The final battle scenes take...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:30:06 +0400

Finally completed Modern Warfare 3. The final battle scenes take place in Burj Al Arab! Fought my way up from the fish tanks to the helipad!

Somewhere in Sweden, a newspaper layout editor is laughing till...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:16:02 +0400

Somewhere in Sweden, a newspaper layout editor is laughing till he wets his pants. (via @SariTuqan)

Simply disgusting. On every...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:53:53 +0400

Simply disgusting. On every level.

handsup-thumbsdown:

Inter-Emirate ridiculous spending competition.

Abu Dhabi one-upping Dubai with a night out at Etoiles.

Behold! A 387,988 AED bill from Cavalli Club. This is so...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:24:47 +0400

Behold! A 387,988 AED bill from Cavalli Club.

This is so offensive on so many levels, I cannot even begin to talk about it without spitting.

(via THE_47th )

Playing Liar’s Dice in a Kowloon drinking den with...

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:42:32 +0400

Playing Liar’s Dice in a Kowloon drinking den with @Metaxas & @MeredithTuqan

Ronnie - the epic Christmas Dog.

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:09:23 +0400

Ronnie - the epic Christmas Dog.

I have seen some pimping boardrooms, but this is the pimpest.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:41:50 +0400

I have seen some pimping boardrooms, but this is the pimpest.

When you do dickish things like call yourself a ...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:57:34 +0400

When you do dickish things like call yourself a “born-again entrepreneur”, God punishes you with spelling mistakes in the headline.

Whenever you meet another man at an Aussie wedding who is also...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:01:23 +0400

Whenever you meet another man at an Aussie wedding who is also wearing a skirt, you have to take a picture together as a matter of principle.

From last week’s Thailand adventure: here’s a drink...

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:28:36 +0400

From last week’s Thailand adventure: here’s a drink that won’t go down too well in Dubai.

The moment you realize that you and your wife fly a lot: when...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:45:00 +0400

The moment you realize that you and your wife fly a lot: when you show her the nine currencies in your wallet, and she’s got ten. #GPOYW

I know it’s not cool to propogate racial stereotypes but...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:07:43 +0400

I know it’s not cool to propogate racial stereotypes but when there’s a drink in Thailand on offer called Pina Corada I mean come on!!!

Kellogg Co. realizes it was foolish to send a cease and desist letter to non-profit Maya Archaeology Initiative to stop using a toucan in its logo. Agrees to contribute $100,000 to help build a cultural center in Guatemala instead.

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:52:52 +0400

Kellogg Co. realizes it was foolish to send a cease and desist letter to non-profit Maya Archaeology Initiative to stop using a toucan in its logo. Agrees to contribute $100,000 to help build a cultural center in Guatemala instead.:

cwj:

Good for Kellogg to own up to their mistake.

On another note, it appears that the Mayans had giant toucans that ate people who tried to climb to the tops of their pyramids.

This is good news. I was gonna sue Kellogg’s for using my family name without permission if they didn’t.

Champagne? Check. @MeredithTuqan? Check. Upgrade Fairy for the...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:20:35 +0400

Champagne? Check. @MeredithTuqan? Check. Upgrade Fairy for the win? Check!

So this is how full tonight’s flight is gonna be. If there...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:49:14 +0400

So this is how full tonight’s flight is gonna be. If there was ever a night for the Upgrade Fairy to make an appearance, this is it.

Call me crazy, but judging from the porno-theater ambiance of...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:52:09 +0400

Call me crazy, but judging from the porno-theater ambiance of this meeting room, I am about to meet a potential client who does not see the value in spending a lot of money on his corporate image.